Standard: (2) Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
• there are a wide array of themes in every piece of literature.
• these themes develop over the course of the story.
• by piecing together these themes, a reader can piece together an objective summary of the text.
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
• Why do books have themes?
• How can you find development of themes in a story?
• How do these themes play into the plot of the story?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
• Critical Details:
when Lyra learns about dust, when Lyra become the assistant of Ms. Coulter, when Lyra learns the truth about the Gobblers, when Lyra discovers the truth about her parentage, the Meeting of Iorik Byrnison, finding the "cut" child, finding Bolvangar, finding the "cut" demons, the truth about "cutting," the escape from Bolvangar, the Battle of the Armored Bears.
• Sequence and Timelines
the period of the book in relation to the kinds of themes and how the sequence of events relate to the developing themes.
• Vocabulary
the meaning of theme, moral, daemon, oblation, and cut.
• describe the themes of a literary text.
•represent the themes with characters from "The Golden Compass."
• decide what is a theme and what is a moral.
• analyze the course of themes throughout "The Golden Compass."
• relate the changing themes to the plot of "The Golden Compass."
• recognize when a theme is playing into the plot of "The Golden Compass."
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
What understandings are desired?
• these themes develop over the course of the story.
• by piecing together these themes, a reader can piece together an objective summary of the text.
What essential questions will be considered?
• How can you find development of themes in a story?
• How do these themes play into the plot of the story?
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
when Lyra learns about dust, when Lyra become the assistant of Ms. Coulter, when Lyra learns the truth about the Gobblers, when Lyra discovers the truth about her parentage, the Meeting of Iorik Byrnison, finding the "cut" child, finding Bolvangar, finding the "cut" demons, the truth about "cutting," the escape from Bolvangar, the Battle of the Armored Bears.
• Sequence and Timelines
the period of the book in relation to the kinds of themes and how the sequence of events relate to the developing themes.
• Vocabulary
the meaning of theme, moral, daemon, oblation, and cut.
•represent the themes with characters from "The Golden Compass."
• decide what is a theme and what is a moral.
• analyze the course of themes throughout "The Golden Compass."
• relate the changing themes to the plot of "The Golden Compass."
• recognize when a theme is playing into the plot of "The Golden Compass."
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.